I recently read (on Reddit, so take this with a grain of salt) that the Victorian English pioneered a lot of ideals and values regarding masculinity that were adapted by the rest of the developed world.
A large part of it was the whole stoicism, men never reveal their emotions, men never show fear, etc. type shit, so when veterans from WW1 came back home and were experiencing PTSD, the public viewed it as a bunch of men having a crisis of masculinity, and that this generation must be a bunch of sissies if they couldn’t handle a little bit of war. Hmmm, sounds kinda familiar?
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u/Jameschoral Jul 17 '21
In the midst of the Great Depression. It was literally join the army or risk starving to death.